Lizzie, welcome to our forum, so nice you found us. It is great when we have new members coming from all over the world. You will love to keep the bees. This will be a great place for you to tell your stories, tales and experiences, you will also make some new friends. Stick around, we love new members. Have a most wonderful and awesome day, life, health. Cindi

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There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. Robert Service

oh ! I have just been banned from putting the link in the post ( how stupid)

Michael Judd:

First you haven't been banned, you were alerted you cannot post links and images yet - if you keep trying to post after receiving that warning you surely will be banned by the software itself. If you had been banned you wouldn't be posting right now. So careful on your terminology and if our rules are "STUPID" to you then leave now.

Second - you are asked in 4 places in our forums to ADD YOUR LOCATION to your profile and yet you have not, I surely hope you do that ASAP and without complaining about it.

Third - if you have more issues, keep them to yourself, send a message to a moderator or just leave. You haven't been here long enough to earn ANY PRIVILEDGES in this forum, so I'd calm down if I were you.

I'm not trying to come off mean here, but there is enough posts explaining all this and there are few excuses for new members to see posts marked IMPORTANT: NEW MEMBERS MUST READ THIS!

This is a great place, we ask very little of the members and only 4 posts into your journey with us you have issues - I think you need to read the post in the top forum concerning our bylaws - it is requested strongly of all members. If you don't like the rules, then go away now. If you can live within our rules, then you are welcomed here. But you will be allowed to post links and images WHEN we feel you are ready, so far YOU ARE NOT READY.

Please enjoy the forum, and if it has helped you in any way, we hope that a small donation can be made to support our FULLY member supported forum. You will never see advertisements here, and that is because of the generous members who have made our forum possible. We are in our second decade as a beekeeping forum and all thanks to member support. At the top right of every page is a donations link. Please help if you can.

Thank you for your strongly worded message, I will of course abide by the rules.

I think you mistake my English, I wrote quickly and used the word banned to mean that I was stopped by the software from giving Linda from Brittany a useful bee dictionary. I did NOT continue to try to include the link. I apologize for saying "stupid" I was of course referring to the software as I have never come across a site where you can't send a link. But, now I know -- for which thank you.

I have the link, I did simply ask to know how to send the link to you. I did look all over the site for a method to send you a message but could not find it. I have now been told by someone where to look and how to send you a message with the link on. I have sent you a message, as moderator ( I hope you get it) I would be pleased if you could approve it and allow her to see it.

It is a four language dictionary for bees and I find it very useful indeed (as an Englishman living in France) and I thought Linda would also.

I do not think I saw anything that asked me for my location. In fact I saw the introductory section and entered a message to say who I was and where I lived. This message has been posted and has been replied to by three nice people who welcomed me to the forum. ( Perhaps you did not see this as I notice you did not respond to my posting). If I find a place to make my profile I will fill it in fully. In fact as I write I looked in "profiles" and found myself- Although I notice there is no location mentioned I can't find a way of editing my profile to include a location. So please be kind enough to help me. In fact I live near Nice in France.

I came across the web site and thought it would be so so interesting I will ASAP look around and find rules and regulations and do my best to abide by them.

I am in fact a kind and trustworthy person and my instinct was in fact to help someone else before I helped myself. I therefore hope that I will be allowed to stay as a member to contribute and also learn. I also hope that correspondence between us may become more civil and friendly.

Hi Michael, Welcome to the forum,If you go to the profile button at the top of the page and hit that it will take you to your profile.When you get there you will see a list of options to the left including modify profile, hit that and you are back into your original profile and there is a location question, just fill it in and hit save.Enjoy your time here and happy beekeeping!

michael, some of us have trouble with english when it is our first language! :-) if you are brought up with another language or another dialect from american english, it's not hard to get confused.

welcome to the site. you also, lizzie!

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I fully understand that English is NOT an easy language, we have had many members who have come in here over the years who struggle or use terminology that is very literal in English and I have always stuck strongly behind them when their posts come off worded strongly and sometimes offend others. Words and their meanings are so interpretive in so many languages, I praise anyone who learns a second or more language. I struggle to learn Spanish and see the complexity of trying to phrase sentences.

I apologize if I had taken your post too literally and felt that we may have a member who was starting off too strongly and needed to be talked harshly too. As Administrator, it is often my job to be the strong worded guy, making points quickly to prevent future problems, especially with new members, so that they understand quickly that we mean what our rules state.

Here is the link you request be posted, it is a very good link indeed. Welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy it here and again I am sorry if my reply to you seemed harsh, it isn't always easy to distinguish the meanings of new members posts when they are written so well using English, it is easy to forget that words have so many meanings and I hope you understand my posiyion to keep the peace here, which most of the time requires no intervention - but when it does, I do my best to prevent anything before it starts.

Welcome again.

This is the link to a FOUR LANGUAGE DICTIONARY of BEEKEEPING TERMS sent to me by Michael:

Please enjoy the forum, and if it has helped you in any way, we hope that a small donation can be made to support our FULLY member supported forum. You will never see advertisements here, and that is because of the generous members who have made our forum possible. We are in our second decade as a beekeeping forum and all thanks to member support. At the top right of every page is a donations link. Please help if you can.

I am English and date back to 1066. yes 1066Winston Churchill once said that Britain and America were two countries separated by a common language............

I actually say all the time to my 26 year old twin daughters that Communication is the biggest word in the English language.

Do not mistake me - I know you did your job well and properly. I am quite certain you did the right thing. As a little aside - I hope that our conversation did not spoil the welcome Lizzie from Brittany, France should have received on her joining the site.

I sincerely hope that our little problem - played out in public - serves as a reminder to everybody - not only members of this site - that we are becoming a much more multi national/lingual world. In our "bee" world it is true also.

Let our bees bring us all together.

Thank you Mr Beemaster for your welcome. I am enthralled by this site and what is can bring to all of us. Thank you.